RE: url handling (was RE: [Pyblosxom-devel] Egads! Bugs?)

[will <wi...@bl...>]

I'm into replying to my own emails today.  All these things running 
through my head right now.  More below:


On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, will wrote:
>  
> > > to do the actual work based on querystring attributes.
> > 
> > And some other pieces of data, like REQUEST_METHOD.
> 
> Hmmm...  I'm going to have to toss this around.  I'm wondering if we
> should build a HTTP request object of some sort and pass that around
> instead.  That changes this whole discussion from a "url handler" to a
> "http request handler".  Mmm...  That actually makes more sense to do.
> 
> Though that might be overkill--those variables are already available in 
> the os.environ dict which everything can see.

If we go with the transform mechanism, then we'd want to move those 
variables from os.environ to some kind of HTTP request object the 
contents of which could be changed.

Also, when I'm saying "HTTP request object", I really mean just a dict of 
name/value pairs.

/will